Screw forcing yourself and kicking yourself over not doing it!
That only works for some guys, and for the most part, it will fuck you up down the line. There are several ways of getting confident at something, and one of them is forcing yourself to do it, until you become good at it (by far the worst one).
There is a way to become good at it, without ever forcing yourself. It includes:
1) Solving it indirectly
Locate all the things that are related to it, but are easier to improve. Such as overall social life. You have no idea how much easier it is for a person with huge social circles to start approaching, than someone without.
Solving it indirectly involves also building a life you love, i.e. get super engaged into some hobbies you always wanted to get involved with. When your day consists of going from one activity that gets you juiced up to another... approaching some random brainless bimbo seems just... irrelevant. And guess what, something seeming irrelevant makes it so much easier to do.
2) Changing the way you look at it
By FAR the largest mistake i've seen guys make about "solving approach anxiety" is PRECISELY THAT. Calling it "solving approaching anxiety.
That makes into this super big mountain to climb over, like "defeating mount everest" or some shit.
Here's a cool fact you might not have thought about.
What is approaching?
By definition, "approaching" is the act of moving your body towards another person's body, and verbally saying something. Anything.
That's it. It's NOT "attraction building", or "the most important step to getting laid" or "the first phase of whatever".
When you get that distinction in your mind, that approaching is simply "saying something to someone". It changes the perspective.
3) Super-Small-Chunking it
The second biggest mistake is that guys get insane in their ideas. A person who has never ever approached, decides to "defeat approach anxiety", by finding away to finally do THE APPROACH.
And THE APPROACH is ussually, approaching a super hot SHB12 in the most VIP club, while she is surrounded by 49 admirers and 5 bodyguards, and then having her respond super positively.
Nah uh.
That's like trying to "finally defeat my anxiety of getting on a bike", by finding a way how to do triple 360degree turns off a rail or some shit.
Gotta start at the start. Just small chunk it.
Having in mind that "approach" is simply walking up to someone and saying something. By definition, you going up to the middleged woman at the supermarket counter and asking her for an opinion *is* an approach.
The way you get good at approaching is through experience. So just do *WHATEVER* approach you can do now. Just begin, today. Do 3 approaches a day. And guess what? The more you do it, the faster you will be able to do harder and harder approaches. So you have to start by asking UGs for the time? So what?
Action --> All that matters.
Dude, remember, 95% of men on this planet DON'T APPROACH. Period, so don't beat yourself up over a community ideal.
Besides, here's the irony, the best way to overcome is to accept it. Yeah strange new age shit. But the thing is, if you beat yourself up over it, you'll never pass it.
So just do daily action (whatever that is for you), and in no time you will reach super impressive levels
be the pua u no u can be.. hell me being a rAFC is about 31232x better than being an AFC.